The trip that changed everything Some trips are lovely. A few rearrange how you travel for the rest of your life. For one UnTours family, that trip happened in a tiny village called Reuti. Gary and Chris Rice share their memories. Reuti sits on the Hasliberg, a sunny mountain terrace high above Meiringen in…
The bakery around the corner Ask travelers what they remember about Andalusia and you expect to hear about the Alhambra. Maybe the striped arches of the Mezquita. For one UnTourist couple, Gary and Chris Rice, the real highlight was the local bakery and what it taught them. We loved touring the Alhambra and the…
This summer we asked UnTourists to share a photo from their travels, and you delivered. You opened your camera rolls and sent us the moments that stayed with you long after you unpacked back at home. Honestly, choosing the winners was hard for our team, but it brought us a lot of joy. What…
UnTours Managing Director Emily Schulman recently traveled to Portugal with her family, including her 5-year-old. Here are a few family-friendly ways they found to slow down. Portugal is wonderfully kind to kids. On a recent family trip to Porto, Sintra and Lisbon (a quick day trip from Sintra) with our five-year-old, the highlights were…
Our UnGuide and Director of Product, Jon Berrocal, on Spain’s first total solar eclipse in more than a century, our first-ever total solar eclipse UnTour in the Basque Country and why the sky was only half the story. Thirty seconds of silence Picture this. About a hundred of us stand among the vines in…
There’s a close off the Royal Mile so narrow you’d pass it a hundred times without a glance. Sonny stops, turns and waits for us to notice it. Then he guides us in. Inside is an Edinburgh the guidebooks don’t keep. And the man holding the key knows these streets in a way no…
Tell people you’re taking your teenagers on a family trip abroad and watch their faces wince. The one that says good luck with that. We took ours, ages 13 and 16, to Central Scotland this past summer with UnTours, and I’m here to report back from the other side: it was one of the…
Oaxaca is irresistible, a center of Mexican art and tradition, Indigenous culture, and above all, food! This state is the culinary heart of the nation, and Oaxaca City offers up vivid food halls, ubiquitous street food, and a restaurant scene that rivals larger cities. Our UnTour was a perfect way to taste Oaxaca. We…
Some trips take you somewhere new. Others take you back. Every so often, a story lands in our inbox that reminds us exactly why we do what we do, and this is one of them. It comes from a longtime UnTourist whose parents traveled with us in our earliest days, and who recently returned to…
Some trips you plan. Others feel like they’ve been waiting for you. Ours was the second kind. In 2024, we went to Budapest as a family — three generations of us, my mom included, whose own parents were both born in Hungary. We didn’t travel there to see Budapest so much as to feel…